I installed the game of my childhood **Age of Mythology** and set it to Japanese language with voice acting. I’ve been learning Japanese for 3 months now and still suck… but I can recognize some kanjis and their readings/meanings in context, it’s heartwarming! 😀 I can’t use it for immersion yet (impossible for me to comprehend a dialogue in real time without pausing), but it makes **awesome Katakana practice** (there’s many many Greek, Egyptian, Nordic and English words).
The campaign is really well written and fun, about 50 hours of content. I recommend it to people who like fantasy and ancient mythology as an alternative to visual novels.
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I agree that this is a good tip, play a game you know really well and you can sort of stumble through it in Japanese even if it’s technically above your level
have an upvote and please enjoy the rest of your day
I am playing Animal Crossing (a game I know very well) and I need to make sure I try to read the screens rather than just A-ing through the stuff I know. Other than that, it has been going great!
Well, outside of Gulliver/ジョニー. He uses a very interesting choice of kana 😅
Is everything voice acted? How much japanese voice are you exposing yourself to?
If the text is going fast, don’t forget about using Windows Game Bar to make a clip of tthe last 30 seconds.
Good job, I have been studying years and still haven’t tried a game. I always tell myself I’m not interested in learning game-speak but maybe it’s more that I’m just scared to try.
Prostagma?
3 months and still suck… Lol
I’ve been learning for 5 years and still can’t follow it
It sucks getting old..
I just played through LoZ Link to the Past on my Super Famicom in Japanese. It was really helpful! I’ve also been playing animal crossing but kinda burnt out on it.
Currently doing OoT but it has way more text that isn’t repeated like the aforementioned games.